Transcript

1.
What is the definition of urbanization?
The process of transition from a rural to a more urban
society.
It reflects an increasing proportion of the population
living in settlements defined as urban, primarily
through net rural to urban migration.
– UN definition
What is the definition of urban?
Arbitrary depending on population size

2.
• Trends of Urbanization
• Video – Living in the City
• Urbanization & Problems

3.
“The growth of cities will be the single largest influence on development in
the 21st century.”
- United Nations Population Fund

5.
Watch
•http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=kZgm8f8K_w0
(Megacities – Living in
the City)
Think
• What are the problems
created from high
concentrations of
people living in cities?
• Who are the winners &
losers of urbanization?
Reflect
• Why should we care
about these
problems?
Write
• 1 idea/thought – 1
Post-it
• Every idea is valuable
Individual work

6.
Group work
1. What problems are created from high concentrations of
people living in cities?
2. Why should we care about urbanisation?
3. Who are the winners and losers of urbanisation?
Instructions:
- Divide the ideas according to the questions.
- Put similar individual ideas together and give
that new group a header

10.
A “slum household” is a group of
individuals living under the same
roof in an urban area who lack one
or more of the following: durable
housing, sufficient living area,
access to improved water, access
to sanitation and secure tenure.
- UN HABITAT

11.
Urbanization and urban blight
Urban blight refers to
the deterioration and
decay of buildings and
older areas of large
cities, due to neglect,
crime, or lack of
economic support.

13.
Compass tool
• To get a holistic
understanding of an issue
from different perspectives,
while recognizing the
importance of each
stakeholder’s stance.
• To understand the inter-
connectedness of an issue
• What are the stakeholders?

14.
Homework
To think about how traffic
congestion can be a problem using
the compass tool